Regina police shoot, wound gun-toting man

A 27-year-old man is recovering in
hospital after he was shot by a Regina police officer.

Investigators said officers were called early Sunday morning to a
central-area home where a man inside was reportedly waving around a long-barrelled
gun and threatening people. When they arrived, they found a male with a
firearm in the back yard.

”He was given instructions to drop the weapon but did not follow police
commands,” police Chief Troy Hagen told reporters several hours after the
shooting. ”At approximately 12:15 a.m., a Regina police officer discharged
their firearm.”'

Police said one shot was fired, striking the man in the torso. He was
taken to hospital where he was listed in stable condition. His name has not
been released and there is no indication whether he will face charges.

Police also said the officer who fired the shot has just under five years
of experience.

Chief Hagen said incidents like this can unfold very quickly.

”So there's split-second decisions in some cases and an officer has the
authority to discharge their weapon when they feel that there's going to be
imminent harm.”

It's expected that the RCMP will oversee an investigation into the
shooting, which is the first involving police in Regina since August 2008.

Our political parties are now controlled by the Republican Firearm Lobby Group.

None of these politicians it appears have ever had to look the dead bodies of
those massacred some lunatic with a gun.

Its an "American Disease" that kills 276 Americans every day", that's right. 276
Americans die in the United States of America, on average, every day of the
year. That's around 101 THOUSAND people every year die as the result of a
firearm.

Back in 1996 Martin Bryant "snapped" and used two "
Long Barreled guns" that's right, they had long barrels, to end the lives of 35
people in just eight minutes.

Australia's then prime minister then gave Australia one of the tightest set of
gun ownership laws in the world.

Howard put it in blunt language.
“I hate guns. One of the things I don't admire about America is their slavish
love of guns… We do not want the American disease imported into Australia.”

Prior to that legislation, Australia had 11 mass murder incidents during the ten
years before Martin Bryant murdered his 35 people in 8 minutes.

Australia has had NO mass murders since.

Strict firearm legislation works.

The American Gun Lobby group are probably the most powerful group in the United
States, it is their religious zealouts approach to Canada that has been so
devastatingly effective with cowardly changes of mind by the likes of Jack
Layton who even attended an evening for victims of the Montreal massacre.

This is the same lobby group who have enabled America's latest embarrassing
murderer who simply handed over around $1000 for his "Herstal Five-SeveN" known
to "shred body armour, a favorite of cop killers around the world.

Perhaps Stephen Harper needs to put his research team to work, find him some the
video's of mass murderers in action.